PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Relational Aggression, Normative Social Influence
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Determination of what is right and wrong. Obey rules to avoid punishment or gain rewards (often concrete rewards) If you save your wife, you"ll be a hero! . Uphold laws and rules to gain social approval or maintain social order. If you steal the drug for her, everyone will think you"re a criminal: Actions reflect belief in basic rights and self-defined ethical principles. People have a right to live, even if it means stealing . Over 100 studies indicate that a father"s love is comparable to a mother"s love in predicting children"s health and well-being. Our biological status (chromosomes and anatomy) that helps define our gender. The socially constructed roles and characteristics by which a culture defines male and female. Overall, men and women are more similar to each other as a whole than individual people are . Engage in more indirect and verbal relational aggression.
